Indesign scripting Community

[Supreme_Chancellor]

@Sujatha_Reddy
Adobe's own tech support told me to post a thread here. 

tl;dr: https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/913162-adobe-indesign-sdk-scripting-bugs-and-features/suggesti...

When the indesign scripting community was merged with the general indesign community yesterday we lost all ability to find helpful answers. I’m not exaggerating when I say that the indesign scripting community forum is the ONLY reason I was at all able to learn how to write scripts in indd.  Adobe’s own documentation, resources and tutorials for scripting are scattered, outdated and lacking. It’s incredibly frustrating. That community had 10+ years of answers to pretty much everything. It’s completely impossible to search for an answer in the general indd page when 90% of the answers, are not scripting related.  You have "topics" but you can't even search in them. It's madness. 

As an example, If I were an indesign beginner (i’m not) and I search “how to create a text box, and put text in it” I should find an answer like “Drag a text frame out with the type tool and click in it and start typing”

If I was an indd scripting beginner (and I very much am) The answer is closer to:

var myPage = app.activeDocument.layoutWindows[0].activePage;
var bounds = {geometricBounds:[55, 10, 65, 20]};
myTextFrame = createTextFrame(bounds, "Adobe does not care about its users");

function createTextFrame(myTextFrameBounds, myTextFrameContents){
    var myFrame = app.activeDocument.layoutWindows[0].activePage.textFrames.add(myTextFrameBounds)
    myFrame.contents = myTextFrameContents
}

These two answers are worlds apart. 

How are you guys going to fix this?

Also,  my first 3 posts didn't show up. Whats up with that? 
Also, also, I like how the only way to find the incopy forum is to click through the indesign forum.

[Laubender]

Also, 3/4 of my posts dont show up. Whats up with that?

Hi, Sujatha!

I think, all threads and posts done before November 2016 were not transferred to the new forum.

Also all threads and posts from August 22 to September 12, 2019.

The ones from that period still can be accessed if you know the URLs. But I doubt that they would get unaccessible quite soon.

I still get answers to my old forum's inbox. Still can answer or reply to posts between August 22 to September 12, 2019 in the old forum. Don't know why. Maybe because I'm an ACP? My guess is that the old forum will be closed soon.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( ACP )

[Supreme_Chancellor]

>Also all threads and posts from August 22 to September 12, 2019.

TBF, Adobe did tell us that ahead of time. 

[Supreme_Chancellor]

Heres a fun fact! 
If you click reply and then try to type a soft return, it just sends the reply. If you then try to edit the repy it 404's! hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaa

[Laubender]

You just discovered when hitting the Enter key that you'll send the reply.

Best use the big blue Reply button for replying that, unfortunately, is only present at the first entry of a forum thread.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( ACP )

[Supreme_Chancellor]

Actually I was trying to type a soft return, Shift+enter. and then if 404's when you try to edit it. AND THEN I learned that you can't delete comments? 

I try to not resist change, but this is a dumpster fire. 

[Srishti Bali]

Hi there,

Thank you so much for sharing your valuable feedback. We are continuously trying to fix all of them one by one. By now you should be able to Edit and Delete your replies.

Regards,

Srishti

[Laubender]

As you might know: "Resistance Is Futile!".

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

[Srishti Bali]

Hi there, 

For the ease of finding content we have created a few labels. For scripting related queries, you may click on 'Scripting' under Topics. This will show all the threads relevent to InDesign Scripting community.

Regards,

Srishti

[Supreme_Chancellor]

As I'm sure someone else has pointed out to you, there is no way to search within that topic, or filter search results. Are you really suggesting I just click the scripting topic and scroll down until i find an answer?

[hervéd27755221]

You can type "[scripting]" in the search field before the text of your query (within InDesign Community).
For exemple : "[scripting] add text frames".
With "[scripting] add text frames" I get 53 results (345 résults with "[scripting] textframes"), all of which have the "scripting" label but I can only see a few. There is another problem, the website only shows me the first page of results!

[brian_p_dts]

And all threads not relevant to us, like scripting in After Effects or Animate (where a "related" topic took me when I clicked on it.

[tmmls]

For a company which takes pride in UI and UX design, promoting the build of functional platforms and designs, shifting the focus to enhance user experience in any digital platform, Adobe was able to replace a 10 year old community platform in something that is completly useless, and looks like crap. How does a company which is a pioneer in UI and UX design, is able to create a portal of this level? I'm just flabergasted...  What went wrong here? 

[Laubender]

tmmls said:
What went wrong here?

Hi tmmls,

to give you an overview see:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/Community-Help/bd-p/community-help

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )